The photos of the cottage bought by Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich for Nobel Prize money have recently been posted on the Internet.
Writing an article about Alexievich, Alena Malochka, a journalist by the Belarusian newspaper Narodnaya Volya, took pictures of the interiors and then published the photos on Facebook from where they leaked to other media outlets. But later the post became unavailable.
“There is a smell of plant resin, herbs and a light odor of mantle – however, this is the result of the hostess’ interior design preferences. Alexievich’s house is decorated in rustic style, there is no place for either synthetic materials or forged things,” the reporter said.
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Svetlana Alexievich is a Soviet and Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. Her most notable works are War’s Unwomanly Face (monologues of women in the war speaking about the aspects of the Second World War which were hardly mentiond before), Zinky Boys (first-hand accounts from the war in Afghanistan ).
After persecution by Lukashenka regime, she left Belarus in 2000. The International Cities of Refuge Network offered her sanctuary and during the following decade she lived in Paris, Berlin and Gothenburg. In 2011 Alexievich moved back to Minsk.
In 2013, after receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Union the writer said that the Belarusian government ‘took no notice of her’.
Belsat TV was be the only Belarusian television channel broadcasting online the ceremony of Svetlana Alexievich receiving the Nobel award for literature. State-run Belteleradiocompany, ONT and STV ignored the event.
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